McMaster Lab Develops New Tuberculosis Vaccine
Wednesday, October 2, 2013 - 13:30
in Health & Medicine
The new vaccine was developed to act as a booster to Bacille Calmette Guerin (BCG), currently the only TB vaccine available. BCG was developed in the 1920s and has been used worldwide. The new "booster" would reactivate immune elements that over time diminish following BCG vaccination.